- Student Reading - 7 Billion and Counting: This reading will allow students to develop a based knowledge of demographic trends and related issues to population growth. This source allows students to apply their knowledge of perspective to recognize some of the bias statements, while also recognizing how perspective influences the way a citizen approaches potential solutions.
- Video - 7 Billion People (3:00): This video, created by National Geographic, shares facts related to the growing population of the world.
- Video - 7 billion, Are you typical?(3:00): This video, created by National Geographic, shares facts related to diversity and being “typical” in a growing global population.
- Interactive Map: Data About Where and How We Live in the World of Seven Billion
- Simulation: Village to Industrial Town in 21 Stages - This simulation shows how a growing population causes human systems to impact human systems, or how physical systems interact with human systems. These interactions and the solutions created at each moment in time causes places to change. In some cases, the solutions create new geographic issues.
- Site: Population Reference Bureau
- Primary Source Set - Mexican American Migrations and Communities from the Library of Congress
- Video and Infographics: Immigration and Population Growth (from Visually). Students have the opportunity to learn about the impact of immigration on growth of the United States. Information reveals positive impact and is based off a report from a Project at the George W. Bush Center.